ANDREW (WRITER): Ok George Eliot's authorial voice in the novel is, is, is, is very, very prominent and um, and, and presents both opportunities and problems. Um, I think in some ways that, that she doesn't do herself any favours or certainly with a, with a 20th century audience er, with this um, er, with this omniscient authorial tone that she has er, which um, telegraphs all her punches in a way you can foretell the whole story from

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what she says about the characters early on and in some ways it's, it's um, it does the story a favour to remove all this pressure and just let the scenes happen so that, so that we can, we can feel the characters at their own pace in a way er, though there are, there are some wonderful things that she says in the book that you just feel that you, or that I felt that I, that I had to get in at some point er, there, there's a bit where, where she says we're, we're all born in moral stupidity and that if we could um, if we were really aware of the whole range of human suffering it, I mean we could just, we could just die, it would be too much for us to identify with, with all that er, I

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